This is one of the oldest plantation houses on the east bank of the Mississippi River in St. John Parish. It is still a working sugar cane plantation.
My parents were friends with the long-gone first owners, the Montegut family, and one of the last places I drove my mother was to this house.
In the fall of 2007 the St. John Parish School Board began preparing the plantation as the site of a new school. The overseer's house was moved and much of the land bulldozed. Another farming site lost to the area. Hopefully, the main house and live oaks will be kept.
2009-The house was bought and moved upriver. There is a new, very modern design school in this location now. Let's hope the teachers and administrators of the school cherish and respect education as did the people who owned this plantation and who gave so much to the school system in St. John Parish.